Insiders not surprised at Archbishop Collins' posting to Canada's largest diocese
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterTORONTO - The man who is about to become one of the most powerful churchmen in Canada has no interest in the trappings of power.
Archbishop Thomas Collins has been a success as a seminary professor and rector, as a bishop in northern Alberta and as a metropolitan archbishop in Edmonton. Church insiders are not surprised Collins was appointed to lead Toronto, Canada's largest and richest Catholic diocese by Pope Benedict XVI on Dec. 16.
After 16 years, Cardinal Ambrozic retires as head of archdiocese
By Catholic Register Staff
TORONTO - With the appointment of a replacement, began last week to say his goodbyes to the flock he has led as archbishop for 16 years.
The cardinal said his last noon Mass at St. Michael's Cathedral as archbishop of Toronto Dec. 17, using the occasion to thank all those who had worked with him and for him. And on Dec. 19, he presided over a Christmas thanksgiving Mass with staff at the Catholic Pastoral Centre.
Homeless, poor not forgotten on Christmas Day
By Sara Loftson, The Catholic Register
TORONTO - For most people in our society, Christmas is a joyful time spent with family. But for the homeless, it's not a celebration they can relate to.
Bioethics conference examines health
By Catholic Register StaffManitoba implements no-sweat policy
By Catholic Register StaffCaptives offer forgiveness to Iraqi captors
By Catholic Register Staff
A year after they were snatched from the streets of Baghdad and repeatedly threatened with death over 118 days, the surviving three members of a kidnapped Christian Peacemaker Teams have forgiven their kidnappers and asked the Iraqi court to show leniency to the men about to stand trial for the crime.
Good Shepherd opens Christmas Store
By Sara Loftson, The Catholic RegisterHAMILTON, Ont. - For the past 14 years the Good Shepherd food bank in Hamilton transforms into a Christmas Store for the month of December.
Charities feel pinch as province starves agencies of money
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register
TORONTO - Catholic Family Services — Peel-Dufferin delivers one of the best bargains the Ontario taxpayers ever got.
The agency deals with family breakdown, the after-effects of child abuse, violence against women and more among 1.2 million people living west and northwest of Toronto. For the region's adult survivors of child abuse, the agency collects $53,000 of provincial government funding and magically transforms it into $250,000 in front-line counselling services to some of the most tragically damaged people in our midst.
Bishops vow continued fight for marriage
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News
OTTAWA - Canada's Catholic bishops say the marriage debate is not over, despite the "disappointing" loss of a House of Commons motion to restore the traditional definition.Cardinal says thanks to all those who served the church
By Catholic Register Staff
Cardinal Aloysius Ambrozic presided over his last noon Mass at St. Michael’s Cathedral as archbishop of Toronto Dec. 17, using the occasion to thank all those who had worked with him and for him.
Toronto gets new archbishop, Thomas Collins of Edmonton
By Joseph SinasacA new archbishop has been appointed to the Archdiocese of Toronto. Pope Benedict XVI announced Dec. 16 that he has called on Archbishop Thomas Collins of Edmonton to take the place of the retiring Cardinal Aloysius Ambrozic.
Collins, 59, told The Catholic Register in a telephone interview from Edmonton that he was "very, very honoured by the confidence the Holy Father had in me" to become the 12th bishop of Toronto, which was established in 1842.